The Feather River Route
12 photos
January - June 2025
2 photos
1995
8 photos
My Railway Models
16 photos
Like many of my age, I've been playing with model trains since short trouser days. In the 60's this inevitably entailed making stuff, or "improving" what was on offer from manufacturers,...
My Military Models
14 photos
Like many little boys in the 60's I grew up with Airfix kits! To this day, I consider being able to read an exploded drawing a really useful capability for life. With a small gap in my early 20's, I...
SAR, South African Railways
8 photos
Whilst my trips to South Africa were all primarily for Steam Charters, these did provide opportunity for some photos of more modern power, and these are included here. All trips were in the 1990's.
South African Industrials
8 photos
My trips to south Africa in the 90's were primarily for Steam Charters, however the opportunity was taken to see some Industrials where possible. The photos are included here, starting with...
South Africa tour 1992 - Bethlehem to Modderpoort
5 photos
Sadly I never visited the country in real steam days, and the first trip in 1992 was primarily for a Steam Charter trip organised by Derek Phillips and John Middleton of Steam and Safaris.
South Africa tour 1992 - Barkly East branch with...
11 photos
This was a day on the now long closed branch to Barkly East, via the remarkable set of reverses. We were particularly fortunate to have the GB Garratt which worked here earler in the 20th century.
DR Kriegselloks, German E94
27 photos
A collection of photos of the DR E94 class of electrics. These entered service in May 1940, and were specifically designed for heavy freight duties on the Munich - Innsbruck - Brenner route. They...
Austria - the Arlberg
9 photos
This is the route, westwards from Innsbruck, towards St.Anton in Arlberg, thence Bludenz and the border with Switzerland.
Austria - the Brenner to Innsbruck and Kufstein
10 photos
This is the line south from the border with Germany at Kufstein, then onto Innsbruck and the climb to the Brenner Pass.
Austria - Mariazellerbahn
9 photos
This is the line south from St.Pölten, down to Mariazell. Electrified in 1909, the class 1099 locos were built at that time and only worked here. Rebodying in the 1960's (?) belies their age! We...
Austria - around Selzthal
8 photos
The railway town of Selzthal is a junction point for several lines in the centre of the country, and also at the time of my visits had a busy locomotive shed. It operated pre-war electrics of classes...
Austria - St.Valentin to Hieflau then onto Leoben...
28 photos
The valley of the Enns south of St.Valentin is particularly attractive, and I deeply regret not covering it properly in my visits to Austria in the 1980's and 90's. From the junction town of Hieflau...
Austria - Villach and the south
2 photos
This route runs southwest from Villach to Tarvisio on the Italian border. For now just a couple of very poor shots of 1020.18 (E94.001) near Arnoldstein.
Czechoslovakian Steam
7 photos
Mainly shots from Red Star events in the 1990's.
These were charters on the mainline, using protoypical trains, run for the benefit of lineside photographers, usually chasing by car.
Brilliantly...
Around Karlovy Vary
9 photos
The main focus of this album is the line to the east of Karlovy Vary towards Chomutov (line 140). There will also be some scans of pictures at Sokolov depot in due course.
Slovakia - around Zvolen
10 photos
Covering mainly the line running southeast from Zvolen towards Fil'akovo close to the border with Hungary. This was the last haunt of the T679.0 diesels built by ČKD, Whilst I saw these I did not...
Slovakia - Tatra main line
14 photos
The east to west mainline through the Tatra mountains a few miles south of the Polish border is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular in Europe. Electrification was first thought about in the...
Berlin during the Cold War
8 photos
A few scans of slides from the 1980's, when the city was still divided, and covering both sides of the "Wall".
The Rübelandbahn in Harz
8 photos
Most enthusiasts visiting the Harz go for the famous metre gauge steam, and very fine it is! However close by is a unique system in Germany, electrified at 25kV, 50Hz, by the East German railway...
Bitterfeld, Halle & Leipzig
13 photos
A first visit to the former industrial heartland of the DDR, in 1992, with lots of action featuring former DR motive power.
Around Gera
4 photos
My first visit to the former DDR for photgraphy was in April 1992, and much of the railway was still as it had been in DDR days. Gera depot was still operating the Soviet built 220 class, and we saw...
Dresden riverside, and the Elbe valley southeast...
12 photos
A very attractive and well known line for photography, which remains busy today for traffic between Germany and the Czech Republic.
Saale Valley, Thüringen
39 photos
My first trip to the former DDR after the fall of Communism was in April 1992, and it became rapidly apparent that speed was of the essence to capture a scene that was changing almost weekly.
One...
Narrow gauge in Saxony
8 photos
The narrow gauge steam in this part of the world has long been a big draw for enthusiasts, pre and post the reunification. Here are some views of the Freital Hainsberg to Kurort Kipsdorf line from...
Plandampf around Dresden and Bautzen
12 photos
Plandampf in the 1990's became something of an addiction, the opportunity to photograph mainline steam on scheduled services, complete with infrastructure ans stock often as they had been in DDR...
Plandampf in Thüringen
14 photos
After the fall of Communism and reunification of Germany, a series of enthusiast events known as Plandampf were held.
These used operational steam locos on scheduled DB services for two to four...
Around Hamburg and the north
7 photos
During the 1980's I had cause to visit Hamburg for work, although I never lived there. Fortunately a few opportunities to extend the trips for personal ends, namely photography, were possible!
Ingolstadt including the Shed
2 photos
An excellent place to visit in the 1980's, as one of the last centres for the class 194 (E94) electrics, complete with modern loco depot and a busy mainline.
Bw Würzburg - July 1984 open weekend
16 photos
DB finally withdrew its prewar electric locos of classes 118 (E18) and 144 (E44) in 1984, and held a special event in commemoration at the depot in Würzburg. Much as I should have liked to have seen...
The Bavarian Alps
14 photos
This album covers the secondary route south from Munich down to Innsbruck (Austria), via Garmisch and Mittenwald, and the pictures here are primarily of this mountain section, over the sunmmit at...
Ulm & Geislingen, Germany
41 photos
Holland
15 photos
Sadly my only visit to this country for photography was a day in 1984, primarily to seek out the class 1500 (BR class EM2) electrics. A great error on my part that I did not come here again.
Latvia - Daugavpils Loco Depot
30 photos
The loco facility at Daugavpils is the main one in the country. We were fortunate to have a visit during our trip, and better still it coincided with perfect early evening light.
In addition to the...
Latvia - general tour
60 photos
A tour run by PTG in early May that covered nearly all the lines in Latvia, using a variety of motive power.
Ably led by Phil Wormald and Marion Matthews, it was somewhat astounding to have a...
Latvia - Gulbene to Aluksne narrow gauge
17 photos
The first afternoon of our PTG tour covered this line, with a return run in the strengthened service train.
With the railway now in private ownership, we were given free access to the depot at...
Romania - around Sibiu (Hermannstadt)
7 photos
In the 1990's I made three trips to Romania for steam charters, but also managing some modern traction photgraphy as well. The lines around Sibiu were used for many of the tours.
Romania - class 142 charter
9 photos
One of the steam charters used the wonderful class 142 2-8-4's, the locomotive having just been overhauled and returned to operation.
Soviet Railways class VL8
23 photos
A class of over 1700 Bo+Bo double electrics constructed between 1953 and 1967. Working on 3000v DC these were built at both Novocherkassk and Tbilisi.
They were still extensively employed in 2010...
Kharkov
12 photos
Some views from a tour in 2010, both of the city, some trams, and the two locomotive depots.
Kup'yansk/ Куп'янськ
8 photos
Situated in the northeast of the country, the extensive yards here were used for cross-border traffic into Russia at the time of my visit in 2010. At the time, the new station building had just been...
Kyiv Aviation Museum (Zhulyany)
6 photos
The State Aviation Museum of the Ukraine, featuring a wide range of mainly military aircraft from the Soviet era up to the present.
Kyiv Passenger Locomotive Depot
9 photos
One of two depots in the city, the other being the freight shed at Darnitsa. A very busy depot indeed, mainly featuring electric locos. It is situated just to the southeast of the main station here.
Luhansk/ Lugansk/ Voroshilovgrad Works
22 photos
My visit here in May 2010 was part of a two week tour of Eastern Ukraine. This was organised by Jim Colley of East European Tours, in conjunction with the Dzherelo organisation.
The works here...
Poltava & Lozovaya
8 photos
Some views of the memorial in Poltava for the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 remembered here as across the country with great public pride and sadness. Also views at the depot at Lozovaya.
The Rakhov/ Рахов line in the Carpathians
17 photos
I had the privilege of three trips along this line in the 1990's with steam hauled charters. A big bonus however was the
opportunity to photograph some of the Soviet era diesels, particularly M62...
Slovyansk and Krasny Lyman / Слов'янськ...
17 photos
Visits in May 2010 to the locomotive depots here. The "Krasny" (Red) was dropped from the city title of Lyman in 2016.
Volnovakha & Donetsk.
5 photos
Views here from the heart of the Donbas industrial area.
California Shortlines
11 photos
Conrail
8 photos
Some pictures from the early 1990's of this now "fallen flag" of American railroading. I always enjoyed seeing and photographing Conrail, and was very fond of the colour scheme,
CSX
15 photos
One of the two primary operators in the eastern USA, along with Norfolk Southern. Most of my views are on the former B&O Sandpatch route, famous for its climb across southern Pennsylvania,
Eastern USA Shortlines
2 photos
Upstate New York along the Hudson
8 photos
In the 1990's I had cause to visit New York for work a few times, and managed to extend ny trips for personal use once or twice! Whilst the city itself never held much attraction, I greatly enjoyed...
Norfolk Southern
25 photos
My trips to see NS primarily focused on the lines out through Virginia towards the Appalachians, and hills going into west Virgina around Bluefield. Lots of coal traffic in the 90's as well as a few...
Union Pacific mainline in Wyoming
11 photos
I had several trips around here in the 1980's and 90's, and it has to be one of the best railfanning areas on the entire planet! No more need be said.
The Powder River Basin - Wyoming coal
10 photos
Spectacular railroading in eastern Wyoming, also into western Nebraska, for this major source of US energy.
Utah lines, mainly coal
9 photos
I never really gave this area adequate coverage, although there are a few shots of the Utah Railway, as well as SP.
Southern Pacific in the Pacific Northwest.
52 photos
The first uploads in this section date from 1996.
As part of a longer PNW trip I took some shots of the SP on the line from Eugene down to Klamath Falls, over the Oregon Cascades, and then onto the...
Union Pacific in the Pacific Northwest
6 photos
Views mainly along the splendid Columbia River section with its basalt cliffs and causeways for the railway.
BN lines in the Pacific Northwest
27 photos
Some views along the Columbia river in Washington State. This was at the start of a Pacific Northwest tour in 1996 that took in the SP in the Oregon Cascades and around Shasta, the UP in the Blue...
The Oregon Trunk - the Deschutes
2 photos
Traffic along here is pretty light, but there are some fabulous locations. I made a few trips along here, and the album will be added to as and when more scans are done.
Greybull Firefighters, Wyoming.
6 photos
On one of our early tours of the USA, in 1985, Ann and I encountered, completely by chance, this amazing operation in the middle of rural Wyoming.
The organization operated aircraft for fighting...
Strategic Air Command museum in Omaha, Nebraska
12 photos
On our first visit to the US in 1983, we came to Omaha both to see this museum and also the home of Union Pacific railroad. The museum has now moved to magnificent premises in Ashland Nebraska -...
July - December 2024
40 photos
January - June 2024
14 photos
July - December 2023
11 photos
January - June 2023
43 photos
July - December 2022
13 photos
January - June 2022
52 photos
July - December 2021
25 photos
January - June 2021
17 photos
July - December 2020
20 photos
So ends a very strange year, and one with a mere 30 photographs taken and added to Flickr.
April - June 2020
5 photos
January - March 2020
6 photos
October - December 2019
12 photos
July - September 2019
17 photos
April - June 2019
13 photos
January - March 2019
24 photos
October - December 2018
14 photos
July - September 2018
25 photos
April - June 2018
37 photos
January - March 2018
16 photos
October - December 2017
3 photos
July - September 2017
14 photos
April - June 2017
32 photos
January - March 2017
27 photos
October - December 2016
8 photos
July - September 2016
65 photos
April - June 2016
27 photos
January - March 2016
33 photos
October - December 2015
4 photos
July - September 2015
27 photos
April - June 2015
31 photos
January - March 2015
38 photos
October - December 2014
5 photos
July - September 2014
21 photos
April - June 2014
26 photos
January - March 2014
22 photos
October - December 2013
15 photos
July - September 2013
51 photos
April - June 2013
72 photos
January - March 2013
18 photos
An abysmal quarter, with few decent days and freezing temperatures right to the bitter end!
November - December 2012
8 photos
October 2012
37 photos
Some quite decent days out, with a useful trip to the Didcot and Cholsey area for the GWML.
Locally the highlight was probably the appearance of the Northern Belle with matched 47's, which I caught...
July - September 2012
53 photos
The miserable weather of previous months continued in July, and it was fortunate that for the Sunday of the Immingham Centenary it was both dry and sunny - pictures from this splendid event are in a...
April - June 2012
12 photos
Very little was achieved in April with appalling weather in what is often one of the best months of the year.
A trip to Latvia at the start of May curtailed UK activities for the best part of a...
March 2012
83 photos
After a poor February, I started the month on Monday the 5th, with a wander round my local area, managing two shots of the 20's on the S stock to Amersham.
I was pleased to catch the newly liveried...
February 2012
12 photos
A decent start to the month with some WCML action at Easenhall and Ansty. This was followed by the trial run of refurbished 60079 on the 2nd, and a visit to Cathiron and Thurmaston on the 3rd.
Sadly...
January 2012
22 photos
Quite an active month with visits to the WCML and also the Sheet Stores line for the temporarily re-routed Boston steel.
December 2011
10 photos
A visit to Chelmscote yielded 92015 on 6B41, folllowed by a pair of 86's, both in good winter light on the 2nd of the month.
On the 12th an excellent forecast plus the Northern Belle and Tornado...
November 2011
15 photos
A reasonable start to the month with a visit to Chelmscote, south of Milton Keynes, for some lovely Autumn light. Although sadly this did not manage to appear for the passage of the two Powerhaul...
October 2011
24 photos
After struggling a bit early in the month, I was pleased to have a decent day out in my local area on the 22nd. This enabled me to record the diverted Freightliner services to and from Felixstowe, as...
September 2011
30 photos
After terrible weather in July and August, in which I did not trouble the camera, the month dawned bright, with a productive hour at Marholm in the late afternoon of the 1st.
The following day I...
June - August 2011
11 photos
A perfect afternoon, on Friday 3rd June, to begin the month. I started on the A46 bridge at Syston, then moved to Hougham on the ECML, just north of Barkston.
I was fortunate in the middle of the...
May 2011
31 photos
A slow start to the month after I scratched the lens on my left eye - should be doing useful things like photographing trains rather than clearing out the shed!
I began with some shots on the...
April 2011
40 photos
The month started with a very busy afternoon in my local area a few miles around Stamford, with a good mix of GBRf freight and a WCRC ecs.
On the 12th I returned to a footbridge just south of...
March 2011
40 photos
My first month on Flickr started with some rare Cumbrian sunshine, and the Chirk logs in all the glory of the S & C at Ais Gill.
An afternoon at Easenhall proved to be a very effective use of...
2010
42 photos
2009
60 photos
2008
16 photos
Postings as and when from my first months of digital photography
2006
12 photos
2005
2 photos
2002
12 photos
1999
21 photos
1998
38 photos
1996
53 photos
1993
13 photos
1992
13 photos
1991
18 photos
1989
1 photo
1984
13 photos
1981
14 photos
1980
14 photos
1979
27 photos
The last year before the recesion of the early '80's and the effective demise of the coal industry in Britain.
1978
40 photos
1977
9 photos
1976
4 photos
1975
15 photos
This was the year in which I first acquired an SLR, A Yashica TL Electro X, being a very welcome present from my parents. It also was the year that I left school, and started at university. In...
Deltic Fenman Railtour - 4th May 1981
12 photos
GN & GE Joint Line
70 photos
A collection of pictures on the freight route from March to Doncaster, mainly since the upgrading of the line in 2014.
This also includes views between Spalding and Peterborough, technically the GN...
Immingham Dock Centenary Open Day
42 photos
The Docks at Immingham were built between 1906 and 1912 - a feat of engineering remarkable even by today's standards, let alone with the equipment and methods of a century ago.
This was a project...
Merseyrail electrics
11 photos
The Great Eastern mainline
16 photos
The Woodhead Route
54 photos
The line from Manchester to Sheffield via Woodhead was built at great human cost and suffering in the 1840's.
Construction was by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway company, which...
Toton Diesel Depot
4 photos
Opened in 1965 adjacent to the Midland steam shed, this was at the time the largest facility of its kind in Europe.
Home in its early days to 20's, 25's and Peaks, it was best known for the first...
Colas, DCR & Advenza
132 photos
DBS & EWS
351 photos
DRS
82 photos
Fastline
7 photos
Freightliner
349 photos
GBRf
337 photos
West Coast RC
20 photos
West Country 59's
24 photos
Tornado - the visits to the GC and some mainline...
8 photos
Featuring the 2008 trial at the GC of Tornado in grey undercoat, and also its second visit in 2010 in apple green.
To continue the story, I have also added other views on the mainline, notably at...
GC 2024
7 photos
GC 2023
2 photos
GC 2022
3 photos
GC 2021
8 photos
GC 2019
4 photos
The GCR withdrew the facility for members to have lineside permits from 1st January, and with that act so died my interest in the railway, which had endured for around 40 years.
GC 2018
8 photos
GC 2017
17 photos
GC September 2015 Diesel Gala, and after
15 photos
A mainly Sulzer affair, with visiting 24 5081 and 26007, adding to the home fleet including 25 D5185 and 45 D123.
GC Railways at Work Gala
15 photos
GC Autumn & Winter 2014/15
9 photos
GC Spring/ Summer 2014
11 photos
GC March 2014 Diesel Gala
10 photos
GC Autumn & Winter 2013/14
15 photos
GC September Diesel Gala 2013, and subsequent...
17 photos
GC September Diesel Gala, 2012
14 photos
GC Winter 2011/12
11 photos
GC September Diesel Gala 2011
3 photos
GC GR8 Gala
16 photos
Another excellent event at the GC, featuring eight coupled steam power. This involved three Stanier 8F's including the beautifully restored 45160, brought home from Turkey and presented in TCDD...
GC charter with 3850
14 photos
A charter with GW 2-8-0 3850 on a mixed freight, organised by Matt Allen and Warwick Falconer, to whom many thanks.
GC Steam Gala - Autumn 2010
9 photos
GCR Autumn Steam Gala 2009
4 photos
GC Diesel Gala - September 2009
9 photos
GCR "1960's Gala" in 2009
8 photos
GCR scans from before 2009
2 photos
GCR (North) - EMRPS charter with 44004
6 photos
Nene Valley
37 photos
The now annual Diesel Gala in October proved a great success, with a quality line-up of visiting motive power.
This included 56303 and 31190 (in BR Green as D5613) from Devon & Cornwall, 20107,...
Nene Valley - EMRPS charter with 56057
8 photos
North Norfolk Railway
7 photos
Swanage Railway Diesel Gala 2019
20 photos
Swanage Railway in 2018
8 photos
East Anglia Transport Museum
4 photos
Fenland Busfest 2018
20 photos
Fenland Vintage Vehicle Gathering 2015
8 photos
Fenland Vintage Vehicle Gathering 2014
31 photos
Leicester Bus Running Day
15 photos
Leicester 1980's Bus Charter
8 photos
An event organised by Jason Cross and the Leicester Transport Heritage Trust, featuring three vehicles in service with Leicester City Transport during the period.
Grateful thanks are also due to...
Showbus 2008
5 photos
Views from this iconic event will be added from time to time, and start with a few products of the Bristol company.
The Big Orange - a Celebration of Selnec in 2004
8 photos
Wythall Transport Museum
15 photos
Situated a few miles south of Birmingham city Centre, the Museum specialises in Buses that operated around the West Midlands.
A&P Travel of Barway
8 photos
Abbey & Charnwood Travel of Leicester
7 photos
A.C.Williams of Ancaster
1 photo
Alfa of Euxton
1 photo
Arriva
1 photo
Ausden Clark of Leicester
1 photo
Blackpool Corporation
6 photos
Mark Bland Travel of Ryhall
4 photos
A long time family business to the Stamford area, operating from Ryhall in Rutland.
Brylaine of Boston
50 photos
Buckbys/ Hamiltons of Kettering
6 photos
Catch 22 Bus of Blackpool
1 photo
Centrebus
22 photos
Coach of Langtoft
2 photos
Confidence of Leicester
9 photos
Decker Bus of Whittlesea
6 photos
Delaine Running Day 2018
17 photos
Delaine Running Day 2015
10 photos
Delaine of Bourne
59 photos
A much admired and respected operator based in Bourne in South Lincolnshire.
The company is still family owned and run, and the quality of the vehicles is testimony to the commitment to and pride in...
Dews of Somersham
38 photos
Emblings of Guyhirn
32 photos
A north Cambridgeshire operator based in the Fenland town of Guyhirn between Wisbech and March.
Famous for its fleet of older and very striking vehicles, I was grateful to be allowed to visit their...
First Group
13 photos
Fishwick's of Leyland
12 photos
Fowlers of Holbeach Drove
12 photos
G.H.Watts of Leicester
10 photos
Go Whippet of Swavesey
19 photos
This family operator celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2009, and some of its vehicles carry a commemorative livery to that effect.
Based in the ares around St.Ives in Cambridgeshire, the current...
Harris of Leicester
1 photo
Holmeswood of Rufford
4 photos
Kimes of Folkingham
32 photos
This operator was acquired by Centrebus in 2011, having been employee owned beforehand.
At the end of August 2013, it was wound up and operations taken into with Centrebus, so that the separate...
Marshalls of Sutton
15 photos
A family concern based a few miles north of Newark in East Notttinghamshire.
The vehicles carry a very elegant and elaborate livery, unusual in the present time, and the fleet consists of an...
National Express Coventry
7 photos
National Express West Midlands
5 photos
Neneway of Eye
1 photo
Nesbit of Melton Mowbray
1 photo
Norfolk Green
31 photos
Paul S Winson of Loughborough
13 photos
Pilkingtons of Accrington
5 photos
Preston Bus
25 photos
Redline of Penwortham
5 photos
Rodger's of Weldon
8 photos
Roselyn of Par
4 photos
Rossendale Transport
21 photos
Shaws of Maxey
3 photos
Sleafordian
8 photos
Stagecoach
38 photos
Total Travel of Leicester
2 photos
Transdev
32 photos
TransLinc
3 photos
Travel de Courcey of Coventry
2 photos
Towlers of Emneth
4 photos
Tyrers of Adlington
9 photos
Williams of Camborne
4 photos
Young's of Haddenham
1 photo
Commercial vehicles
17 photos
Bovington Tank Museum
13 photos
Lincolnshire Aviation
8 photos
Newark Air Museum
13 photos
Newlyn Harbour Trawlers
6 photos